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Books like Men of Iron

12 books with a reading profile close to Men of Iron by Howard Pyle. Practical, outward-looking, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.

1

Sir Nigel

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Also clear-cut and escapist · history, narrative

Set during the opening decades of the Hundred Years' War, this historical novel follows Nigel Loring, an impoverished scion of a noble house.
2

Johnny Tremain

by Esther Forbes

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

Set in revolutionary Boston, the story follows fourteen-year-old Johnny Tremain, a talented silversmith's apprentice whose career is destroyed when a molten silver accident leaves his hand permanently disfigured.
3

Chesapeake

by James A. Michener

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

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4

The Scottish Chiefs

by Jane Porter

Also clear-cut and escapist · history, narrative

Jane Porter’s historical novel recounts the life of William Wallace during the Scottish Wars of Independence against King Edward I of England.
5

Trinity

by Leon Uris

Also clear-cut · history, narrative

Leon Uris tells the story of Ireland's struggle for independence through Conor Larkin, a Catholic boy from a poor family in Ulster who grows up in the late nineteenth century.
6

Hawaii

by James A. Michener

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

James Michener’s narrative begins with the volcanic formation of the islands before chronicling the successive waves of human arrivals.
7

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

Also clear-cut · history, narrative

Set in 1757 during the French and Indian War, the narrative follows frontiersman Natty Bumppo, known as Hawkeye, and his Mohican companions, Chingachgook and Uncas.
8

The Robe

by Lloyd C. Douglas

Also clear-cut · history, narrative

Marcellus Gallio, a Roman tribune stationed in Palestine, participates in the execution of Jesus of Nazareth and wins the condemned man’s seamless robe in a dice game.
9

13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi

by Mitchell Zuckoff

Also practical and outward-looking · history, narrative

On September 11, 2012, Islamic militants attacked a United States State Department mission and a nearby CIA Annex in Benghazi, Libya.
10

Kon-Tiki

by Thor Heyerdahl

Also practical and outward-looking · history, narrative

Thor Heyerdahl documents his 1947 expedition to prove that ancient South Americans could have settled Polynesia.
11

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

by Hampton Sides

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative

In 1879, Lieutenant George De Long led the USS Jeannette toward the North Pole, fueled by the incorrect scientific theory of an Open Polar Sea.
12

Exodus

by Leon Uris

Also clear-cut · history, narrative

Leon Uris chronicles the establishment of the State of Israel through the experiences of nurse Kitty Fremont and Mossad agent Ari Ben Canaan.

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